Prehistoric dark soils/sediments of Central Sudan, case study from the Mesolithic landscape at the Sixth Nile Cataract

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F17%3A00465853" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/17:00465853 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/17:43911622 RIV/44555601:13520/17:43887816 RIV/00216208:11310/17:10360248

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.09.023" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.09.023</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.09.023" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.catena.2016.09.023</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Prehistoric dark soils/sediments of Central Sudan, case study from the Mesolithic landscape at the Sixth Nile Cataract

Original language description

The so-called “lake or swampy” dark colored deposits along or to the west of both the White and Main Niles, which were not historically inundated by the Nile as a whole, have been recorded recently in association with Mesolithic occupation. What are the possible formation processes of these deposits and what is their potential for understanding the environmental record in relation to Mesolithic occupation? New insight into this issue might be brought to the forefront by the findings in the Rocky Cities area at the south-western edge of Jebel Sabaloka by the Sixth Nile Cataract in central Sudan. The study deposits were evaluated in terms of sedimentology, micromorphology, chemical composition, grain size and magnetic parameters. The properties detected in the study section correspond to no less than three different phases of development. The lowermost part represents a saprolite horizon of granitic rocks exposed to weathering during the wet period, which resulted in alkaline conditions (1st phase of formation process). The occurrence of shells of Bulinus forskalii retrieved from the uppermost layer suggests that there was an anoxic environment in the past, which may be linked to the conditions of the present-day Sahel and subsequent attraction of this area for occupation during the Mesolithic period. Deposition of the acidic colluvia from the surrounding granitic rocks in this environment resulted in post-depositional processes involving Fe and Mn impregnation, leading to the black coloring (2nd phase of the formation process). The third phase of the formation processes is connected with the development of recent aridisols.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CATENA

ISSN

0341-8162

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

149

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

273-282

UT code for WoS article

000390733300026

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84991448074